On 8 February 2010 01:12, Tirkon wrote:
> I do understand, that OSM-people will not be responsible for malicious
> use, possibly death of innocent humans caused by them or their work.
> But this could be caused also by you, if you buy something and thus
> support a person, who will be able to harm
Martin Koppenhoefer
wrote:
>AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
>correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
>data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
>a paragraph that prohibits the use of our data for militar
Since all military organisations in the world can get their hands on
OpenStreetMap data, it rules out the advantage and makes OpenStreetMap
data as common to warfare as the soil they walk on...
I am looking forward to the first edit-war that will turn out to
influence the outcome of a real war.
You would be surprised. The US Military base vector data set VMAP
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Map) is in places far better than
OSM, and in others (think Haiti) OSM is much better. That said, the
military & intelligence agencies use this in *conjunction* with other
sources of data: imagery
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
> correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
> data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
> a paragraph that prohibits the use of our data for milit
On 04/02/10 15:02, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> 2) Most governments have far better data than what's in OSM.
>
> When you're a military, things like centimeter accuracy really matter.
> OSM isn't anywhere close to that accurate in most places.
>
You'd hope... but various militaries track records o
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
wrote:
> AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
> correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
> data by governmental organisations.
This same issue exists with all Free Software. A "bad gover
On 04/02/2010 14:49, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
> correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
> data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
> a paragraph that prohibits the use
Op 04-02-10 15:49, Martin Koppenhoefer schreef:
> AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
> correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
> data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
> a paragraph that prohibits the use
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